The ethics of human rights
Subtitle: contested doctrinal and moral issues
By: Esther D. Reed.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781932792973; 9781932792737
Subjects: Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Human rights -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-212) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The question of rights; title: On the relation between divine law and human law; title: Revelation and Christ : the measure of "natural rights"; title: Human rights and a tropological reading of Genesis 9:1-17; title: God's command to "multiply" and the right to reproduce; title: Animal rights and the responsibilities of "dominion"; title: War, democracy, and the retreat from human rights.